AMD Launches New Phenom II and Athlon II Processors
Test Systems and Vantage
Test System Configuration Notes: When configuring our test systems for this article, we first entered their respective system BIOSes and set each board to its "Optimized" or "High performance Defaults". We then saved the settings, re-entered the BIOS and set the memory frequency to DDR3-1333. The hard drives were then formatted, and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 was installed. When the Windows installation was complete, we updated the OS, and installed the drivers necessary for our components. Auto-Updating and Windows Defender were then disabled and we installed all of our benchmarking software, performed a disk clean-up, defragged the hard drives, and ran the tests.
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First up, we ran our test systems through Futuremark’s latest system performance evaluation tool, PCMark Vantage. PCMark Vantage runs through a host of different usage scenarios to simulate different types of workloads including High Definition TV and movie playback and manipulation, gaming, image editing and manipulation, music compression, communications, and productivity. Most of the tests are multi-threaded as well, so the tests can exploit the additional resources offered by a quad-core CPU.
We have compared AMD newest processors to the models they supplant at the top of their respective product line-ups, or to the fastest chip in the family as is the case with the Phenom II X6 1075T.
As you can see in the chart above, the 100MHz clock speed increases to the Phenom II 970 Black Edition and the Athlon II X4 645 processors give them a slight advantage over the Phenom II 965 and Athlon II X4 640, respectively. The six-core Phenom II X6 1075T, however, although technically clocked 200MHz lower thant he 1090T by defaults, isn't all that much slower due to both chips having similar Turbo Core frequencies.
